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PICTURE Conveying a message on behalf of the Coloured People's Congress at the Indian centenary celebrations at the Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg, last Sunday. Mr. Lionel Morrison expressed the general feeling of the FEATURE- various sections of the Congress movement when he said: "In the past 100 years the Indian people of South Africa Pages 4 and 5 have by sheer hard work, determinationand sacrificeovercome obstacles which at times appeared insurmountable. In spite of ~~~~~~~~~ accusations from reactionaries that they are foreigners, they r--------- have proved to be true sons and daughters of South Africa." More than 600 Indian men, paign of 1952 as unique in the his women and children crowded the tory of South Africa for in this OLIVER Gandhi Hall to celebrate their hun- Campa ign for the first time "all dred years in South Africa. Maulvi national groups participated in a Saloojee, President of the Transvaal struggle in defence of liberty in our ~~~i~s:~~i~~h~ t ~h ~n:~~ i a~~ e~e~l~ cO~~~~~ e al ed to the Indian people TAMBO had played an important role in the to stand firm with the rest of the development of South Africa. people in the struggle for liberation. He dealt at length with tbe strug- In this lively celebration the gle of the Indian people in this speeches were short and c~n.c~se, A U. N. country and ci t ~ the Defiance Cam- ;i~~i~~a t ~~ d bbea~~i¥~[a~a ~i~;l t l ~; T HE South African United young girls. Front delegation at the MESSAGES United Nations, led by Mr. m e~~g1 f~~ mUtht: r~~~~;v a~10 R~~~ o~ Oliver Tambo, one-time vice- p of the Liberal Party. Messages were president of the now banned also r~~~~~~ I::~:nth;a~r~~r e s s i ve Afri c~n Na~i o nal ~ ongress, is .,------------ ---.:..-- -----.::---=---- I pressmgfor International eeono ----------- - ., I mic sanctions against Sooth Africa. The other member of the delega tion is Mr. Vus'umzi Make, one of NewAge Interviews Canyileon Way10 Exile the 156 treason trialists arrested in 1956 and acquitted a year later. JOHANNESBURG. Mr. Ganyile was arrested by the Make was then deported from Eva HE PONDO BOYCOTT OF police in the streets of Bizana on I ton but escaped from exile to make T MINE LABOUR. TAXES Monday, ~ ovem be r 7, as he ~ a s .' his way to Addis Ababa, later to AND SHOPS IN THE TOWNS selling copies of New Age carrying join up with members of the South WILL CONTINUE INDEFINITE- the latest news of the Pondoland African United Front abroad. LY. SAID MR. ANDERSON struggle. Both Mr. Tambo and Mr. Make KHUMANI GANYILE, EXILED T~ e order served on him was have been having talks with the PONDO L EA D E R . INTER· earned out that very hour. He was heads of UN delegations. VIEWED BY NEW AGE ON not allowed to go home, to say KRUGERSDORP S T AT IO N ~oo dby e to family or friends, to Mr. Tambo addressed a meeting WHILE BEING RUSHED BY pack his belongings, to wind U!J his of the 26·member group of Africar TRAIN TO MAFEKING affairs. He was taken into custody states at the United Nations, and 1 due any day to address the wbole Mr. Ganyile, a former Fort rrare ~~: r s~~ ~i~o ~~~e t~ ~O~hwK~.?;~~ the Afro-Asian group at this ye~ student who has played a .promment did he have a chance to buy him UN session. part m. .the. struggle against Bantu self one blanket and an overcoat Authorities In Pondoland, has been from a store. After this will follow talks banished to Frenchdale, near Mafe- From Kokstad police station Gan the Latin American and Scand king, under the 1927 Native Ad- yile was removed to Pieterrnaritz vian countries. mi rnstrati on Act. burg. There he was put on the train The Soviet and East l~ uro pea r He told Ne~ Age that the boycott to Johannesburg. On Wednesday Socialist delegations have already started In Bizana Will spread to night, November 9, he was put indicated their support for the cause other centres m Pondoland and t h ~ n aboard the train for Mafeking, of the South African freedom lobby. through the whole of the Transkei, New Age chased the train after GOOD RESPONSE He denies emphatically press reo it had left the Johannesburg station, ports that the Pondos want a return and caught up with it at Krugers Of the African states' delegations to the old Bunga , "PONDOLAND dorp station. where our picture was Mr. Tambo reports: "The response WILL BE SATISFIED WITH NO- taken. Last week a black flal::flew over the condemned Johannesbullt Indian is very good. If not enough is achieved it will not be for lack of THING SHORT OF SENDING Two African constables escorted High School, ordered to move to the Indian ~hetto at Lenz, and REPRESENTATIVES TO PAR·Mr. Ganyile into exile. trying on the part of these delega LIAMENT," HE SAID. (Continued on page 8) students wore black ann bands as a sil:(llof their protest. tions." NEW AGE, THURSDAY, NOVBMBER 17,1960 Sekou Toure declares : •The Positive sideis that the national Liberation struggLe dominates all others. • .The Negative side'is that the struggLe lor t~e emancipation 0/ the expLoited - ~ classes has been made secondarv. Butthe sociaLdemands 0/ A/rica's workers can no .Longer be put off. Guinea's ' "Human Investment" Build To Beat Of Tom-Toms By Roger Clain Co nakry, on African soil. that the And there you have it again. the ' first '!10!1un,;ent "to t~ e mart yrs of phrase that haunts you from the colonialism was built.. minute you arrive in Conakr y. Over and above national differ- Human investment . .. Every ences. .class .0pPosltlOns and dlve~- An indignant woman resident of Mofol o argues that it is a rotte n Saturday. every Sunday. from one ~en! vlewpoJ!"'ts . .the ql;lallty of this system that ejects people from their homes because they are too end of the country to the other Afr.lcan solidarity displayed by poor to pay tbeir rents, and are given too little time to do so. these two newly-coined words Guinea commands the respect of awaken and assemble the popula- all. tion. It is this solidarity which is You will see a procession of further ing the current of African men. women or youngsters passing unity, which is making he~dway .in RENTS PROTES with tools over their shoulders spite of the mistakes, difficulties singing to the beat of a tom-tom -:lnd traps which we ; an see arising It is "huma n investment". 1\1 the story of Africa. A young man bursts i!1to the This solidari ty is providing a house where you are stayi ng and healthy counter-balance to ernerg- AT MOFOLO asks your host." Lend me your ent African nationalism. F rom it is spade and pick, the neighbours increasing and soreadinc the feel- Sup~rinlendenl have 'brought their bricks . .. It's inz of international solidarity of Residents Wonl ANew for the Boussoula District Com- which we saw most vivid testi- mittee schoo l .. ." "H uman invest- mony. JOHANNESBUR G. second month. ment" again.. "Afr ican unity." saId President 1-o.._ _ Two m ag~ c w~rd s which fall Sekou Tou re, "cannot be under: H~~::s?S m~~ a:~ :~:~ to~:til:~~: a~ti~~;i~f °t~~i:~p~~i~~ Sekou' To~. fro":! l a u ~h lll~ lips. A human stood as wioins out differences of 2athered around the Mofolo Town- tendent by explaining that he was reality which gives you the key t.o stru cture or 'the production of forces still present in many States. ship office last Saturday to demand only carrying out Council regula the present. and the futur:; It I,~ identical nationa l programmes. or by the African bourgeoisie. the immediate dismissal of the tions. He said Meadowlands and ~h e translation of the wo!'d work African unity must be based on a "That is why the attempts at superintendent. Roodepoort tenants were being JO the languag e of Afn ~ an free- correct assessment of the cenerrl the Icnu to sabotage trade They told the senior official of ejected from their homes when they . dom. It IS African collective work, and particular featu res of the union unity in Africa will fail, just the Council's NEAD who addressed failed to pay their rents before the voluntary and f ~ e e . recalled from African peonies. H also means as political and military plots them that If the superi ntendent was 7th of each month.